thechineseroom is the name of a development research project I run at the University of Portsmouth, UK. We're interested in first person gaming - particularly, using mods to explore questions about gaming that you can't answer by just analysing commercial releases or theorising about them.
A deserted island... a lost man... memories of a fatal crash... a book written by a dying explorer. Dear Esther is a ghost story told using first-person...
The paramedics report that they were unable to find his eyes. We think he may have eaten them.
A multiplayer mod for up to 8 players. Antlion Soccer is a pretty simple idea - two teams (Combine vs Citizens), one pitch, two goals, gravity guns all...
In 2147, two years after the Mars Base fiasco, the Union Aerospace Corporation drove the Expendable Resource Reconnaissance Bill through World Government...